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Health clinics serving Native Americans in cities grapple with limited funding, scarce resources

Health clinics serving Native Americans in cities grapple with limited funding, scarce resources

by Julia Shapero and Michael Korsh | May 1, 2022 | Health, Urban Indian Healthcare

Health-care organizations that support Native Americans living in urban areas receive minimal federal funding, even though more than 70 percent of the U.S. Native population lives in metropolitan areas. The 41 Indian health organizations serving them, which the...
How Indian Health Board’s Laz Carreon Weathered the COVID-19 Storm

How Indian Health Board’s Laz Carreon Weathered the COVID-19 Storm

by Catherine Buchaniec and Julia Shapero | Apr 30, 2022 | Politics, Urban Indian Healthcare

Laz Carreon was on parental leave helping care for his newborn daughter when a mysterious respiratory illness first appeared in Wuhan, China. As the illness spread through China, it caught his attention. An experienced registered nurse and former National Guard...
Native medical students work to overcome barriers

Native medical students work to overcome barriers

by Jeannie Kopstein and Annie Klingenberg | Apr 26, 2022 | Urban Indian Healthcare

According to Native medical students, there are immense financial and systematic barriers in the way of native students pursuing careers in the medical field. Groups like the American Indian Center of Chicago and the Association of Native Medical Students are...
‘We’ve always been here’: Minneapolis Two-Spirit Artists Boost Cultural Awareness

‘We’ve always been here’: Minneapolis Two-Spirit Artists Boost Cultural Awareness

by Quinn Clark | Apr 20, 2022 | Urban Indian Healthcare

MINNEAPOLIS — Thadd Hall, a two-spirit citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, still remembers a book that their father kept in the house when they were growing up – “Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians” by Washington...
Native WOLFE Program Bridges Gaps in Elder Health with Nutrition, Exercise

Native WOLFE Program Bridges Gaps in Elder Health with Nutrition, Exercise

by Isabel Miller and Cristobella Durrette | Apr 19, 2022 | Featured, Urban Indian Healthcare

MILWAUKEE — Duane “Dodge” Waubanascum, once an amateur boxer from the Oneida Nation who won two Golden Glove titles in the 1970s, stands in the back of a room watching a group of fellow Native American Elders participate in a boxing class. “If you...
Native Americans in Chicago have high opioid death rates. So why won’t they get tribal settlement money?

Native Americans in Chicago have high opioid death rates. So why won’t they get tribal settlement money?

by Andrew Marquardt and Hannah Schoenbaum | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Health, Urban Indian Healthcare

CHICAGO – Sarina DiMaso, a citizen of the Chiricahua Apache and Taino Nations, stumbled into her Chicago home seven years ago after a drug and alcohol binge to find her 24-year-old daughter, Nicole, dead by suicide in DiMaso’s bedroom. Riddled with guilt and trapped...
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